Relax and notice what is going on



"The creation of the world" - Woodcut from an incunabulum, printed in Nürnberg, 1493
Many are feverishly working towards fully AI Generated audiovisual media. The more exciting opportunity that most are missing, is creating AI audiences that consume the endless synthetic content - so humans can go to the forest with friends and enjoy the peace.
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R.I.P. Antero Alli (1952-2023), a Finnish-American philosopher, writer, film-maker, theater director. Known for his books, incl. on the Eight-Circuit Model of Consciousness of Timothy Leary & Robert Anton Wilson.
"I have lived by a code of 'amor fati' for many years - in love with What Is; whatever fate comes my way, I accept. This is no passive acquiescence or subordination to death but a revolution of Spirit to the deep mystery pulsing at the very heart of existence itself." Antero Alli, March 17, 2023
Antero came to redefine death as "Genesis" - a new beginning, a portal into the next chapter of his journey. Our beloved Antero transcended into Genesis yesterday around 12:45pm at home in Portland, Oregon. In his words, "Honestly, I'm not one to mourn over but to celebrate..."
Arto Antero Alexander All - 11/11/1952 - 11/9/2023
80 years ago: "Machines that think called peril to man"
The Universe is an ‘inside out’ job.
‘Reality’ is just a word and you shouldn’t use it without quotation marks around it anyway.
~ Joseph Campbell
Stop trying to calm the storm. Calm yourself, the storm will pass. You give life to what you give energy to. The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
Marc Andreessen's Techno-Optimist Manifesto as redaction poetry
In "The Techno-Optimist Manifesto" (2023), Marc Andreessen cites Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, author of "Fascist manifesto" (the OG Italian one) as well as neo-reactionary accelerationism father Nick Land, and he quotes the Futurist manifest approvingly - a document which says that war is the only true hygiene of the world and that museums and libraries (and feminism) should be destroyed. It was a proto-fascist text that inspired Mussolini. History does not repeat itself but it does rhythm...
Interesting related read: Why can't our tech billionaires learn anything new? On Marc Andreessen's "techno-optimist manifesto" - by Dave Karpf
"Once you see it in your mind's eye - that's what makes it real. Imagination is reality" - Dr. Richard Alan Miller